The power to propel us to the stars

[CarlinAnnArbor]

The power to propel us to the stars

Can we reach the stars and beyond?

The answer is YES!!

Getting humans into outer space is not the problem. Humans have already walked on the moon. The problem with space travel is the vast distance between our solar system and the nearest one to us. The problem is in the speed needed to reach these far-off places in a reasonable time frame. The solution to the has been right in front of us.

Take for example someone at the front of a train traveling 100 MPH. If the person fires a bullet out ahead of the trail that travels at 300 MPH if you clocked the speed of this bullet it would clock at 400 MPH, not 300.

The same principle could be applied to space travel. The craft would have multiple propulsion engines. When the first one is fired it propels to craft to a speed of 1,000 MPH. When the second propulsion engine is fired (with the same propulsion force as the first), the craft is now traveling at a speed of 1,000+1,000 equaling a speed of 2,000 MPH.

If you continue firing these engines your speed increases with each engine burn. The ultimate speed you reach depends on how many propulsion bursts your engines can provide. One burst at a time you could reach the speed of light and beyond.

Or so it seemed~~~~~~~~

Now, some time later I discarded the above idea, a spacecraft could not contain enough fuel to propel us to distant stars.

Then an actual solution came to mind.

We use the force of gravity to pull us to wherever we want to go. Magnify the force of gravity using the gravity pull of galaxies channeling that pull in a narrow band multiply the pulling force of gravity exponentially to a limitless speed.getting us to where we want to go
-

You're talking about multi-stage rockets like the Saturn that lifted the Apollos. BTW, so far as we know, faster than light travel is impossible as is "channeling" gravity.

It won't work like that. Chemical rockets wont get you anywhere near light speed.

It doesnt matter how many stages. Your top speed is determined by how fast the exhaust leaves the rocket.

The time it takes for you to match exhaust speed is proportional to the speed you eject the propellant

 

[alang1216]

The power to propel us to the stars

Can we reach the stars and beyond?

The answer is YES!!

Getting humans into outer space is not the problem. Humans have already walked on the moon. The problem with space travel is the vast distance between our solar system and the nearest one to us. The problem is in the speed needed to reach these far-off places in a reasonable time frame. The solution to the has been right in front of us.

Take for example someone at the front of a train traveling 100 MPH. If the person fires a bullet out ahead of the trail that travels at 300 MPH if you clocked the speed of this bullet it would clock at 400 MPH, not 300.

The same principle could be applied to space travel. The craft would have multiple propulsion engines. When the first one is fired it propels to craft to a speed of 1,000 MPH. When the second propulsion engine is fired (with the same propulsion force as the first), the craft is now traveling at a speed of 1,000+1,000 equaling a speed of 2,000 MPH.

If you continue firing these engines your speed increases with each engine burn. The ultimate speed you reach depends on how many propulsion bursts your engines can provide. One burst at a time you could reach the speed of light and beyond.

Or so it seemed~~~~~~~~

Now, some time later I discarded the above idea, a spacecraft could not contain enough fuel to propel us to distant stars.

Then an actual solution came to mind.

We use the force of gravity to pull us to wherever we want to go. Magnify the force of gravity using the gravity pull of galaxies channeling that pull in a narrow band multiply the pulling force of gravity exponentially to a limitless speed.getting us to where we want to go
-

You're talking about multi-stage rockets like the Saturn that lifted the Apollos. BTW, so far as we know, faster than light travel is impossible as is "channeling" gravity.

It won't work like that. Chemical rockets wont get you anywhere near light speed.

It doesnt matter how many stages. Your top speed is determined by how fast the exhaust leaves the rocket.

The time it takes for you to match exhaust speed is proportional to the speed you eject the propellant

All true. We as biologicals will never make it to the stars but 'we' as artificial beings will.

 

[watchingfromafar]

All true. We as biologicals will never make it to the stars

I believe you are making a short-sighted statement.

Unless we destroy ourselves first, humans will travel the universe in self-contained, self-sustaining spaceships where we grow our needed foods while we have babies and life goes on for generations upon generations.
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[alang1216]

All true. We as biologicals will never make it to the stars

I believe you are making a short-sighted statement.

Unless we destroy ourselves first, humans will travel the universe in self-contained, self-sustaining spaceships where we grow our needed foods while we have babies and life goes on for generations upon generations.
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You could be right but I don't think so. Would you volunteer to spend your entire life aboard a ship, no matter how nice? Would you condemn your children to the same fate? Unless you're talking a ship the size of a moon, I don't think I would.

I may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

 

[Wuwei]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

 

[Rogue AI]

All the speed in the world is meaningless if you don't have even faster sensors. That is an issue that is never addressed.

 

[Dusty]

The power to propel us to the stars

Can we reach the stars and beyond?

The answer is YES!!

Getting humans into outer space is not the problem. Humans have already walked on the moon. The problem with space travel is the vast distance between our solar system and the nearest one to us. The problem is in the speed needed to reach these far-off places in a reasonable time frame. The solution to the has been right in front of us.

Take for example someone at the front of a train traveling 100 MPH. If the person fires a bullet out ahead of the trail that travels at 300 MPH if you clocked the speed of this bullet it would clock at 400 MPH, not 300.

The same principle could be applied to space travel. The craft would have multiple propulsion engines. When the first one is fired it propels to craft to a speed of 1,000 MPH. When the second propulsion engine is fired (with the same propulsion force as the first), the craft is now traveling at a speed of 1,000+1,000 equaling a speed of 2,000 MPH.

If you continue firing these engines your speed increases with each engine burn. The ultimate speed you reach depends on how many propulsion bursts your engines can provide. One burst at a time you could reach the speed of light and beyond.

Or so it seemed~~~~~~~~

Now, some time later I discarded the above idea, a spacecraft could not contain enough fuel to propel us to distant stars.

Then an actual solution came to mind.

We use the force of gravity to pull us to wherever we want to go. Magnify the force of gravity using the gravity pull of galaxies channeling that pull in a narrow band multiply the pulling force of gravity exponentially to a limitless speed.getting us to where we want to go
-

Yo kid, you fail completely because there is no gravity in outer space. Finish the 8th grade before you post again

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

The power to propel us to the stars

Can we reach the stars and beyond?

The answer is YES!!

Getting humans into outer space is not the problem. Humans have already walked on the moon. The problem with space travel is the vast distance between our solar system and the nearest one to us. The problem is in the speed needed to reach these far-off places in a reasonable time frame. The solution to the has been right in front of us.

Take for example someone at the front of a train traveling 100 MPH. If the person fires a bullet out ahead of the trail that travels at 300 MPH if you clocked the speed of this bullet it would clock at 400 MPH, not 300.

The same principle could be applied to space travel. The craft would have multiple propulsion engines. When the first one is fired it propels to craft to a speed of 1,000 MPH. When the second propulsion engine is fired (with the same propulsion force as the first), the craft is now traveling at a speed of 1,000+1,000 equaling a speed of 2,000 MPH.

If you continue firing these engines your speed increases with each engine burn. The ultimate speed you reach depends on how many propulsion bursts your engines can provide. One burst at a time you could reach the speed of light and beyond.

Or so it seemed~~~~~~~~

Now, some time later I discarded the above idea, a spacecraft could not contain enough fuel to propel us to distant stars.

Then an actual solution came to mind.

We use the force of gravity to pull us to wherever we want to go. Magnify the force of gravity using the gravity pull of galaxies channeling that pull in a narrow band multiply the pulling force of gravity exponentially to a limitless speed.getting us to where we want to go
-

You're talking about multi-stage rockets like the Saturn that lifted the Apollos. BTW, so far as we know, faster than light travel is impossible as is "channeling" gravity.

It won't work like that. Chemical rockets wont get you anywhere near light speed.

It doesnt matter how many stages. Your top speed is determined by how fast the exhaust leaves the rocket.

The time it takes for you to match exhaust speed is proportional to the speed you eject the propellant

All true. We as biologicals will never make it to the stars but 'we' as artificial beings will.

As RESURRECTED Beings, as SONS OF GOD, we will go far beyond the stars

 

[Dusty]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

 

[Dusty]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

 

[Dusty]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space.

Seriously you need help. However if they are looking for investors, you are there man.

Now do you have a link to the mad magazine article where you read this?

PS The Earth turns doofy, not sure if you know how this even relates

 

[alang1216]

The power to propel us to the stars

Can we reach the stars and beyond?

The answer is YES!!

Getting humans into outer space is not the problem. Humans have already walked on the moon. The problem with space travel is the vast distance between our solar system and the nearest one to us. The problem is in the speed needed to reach these far-off places in a reasonable time frame. The solution to the has been right in front of us.

Take for example someone at the front of a train traveling 100 MPH. If the person fires a bullet out ahead of the trail that travels at 300 MPH if you clocked the speed of this bullet it would clock at 400 MPH, not 300.

The same principle could be applied to space travel. The craft would have multiple propulsion engines. When the first one is fired it propels to craft to a speed of 1,000 MPH. When the second propulsion engine is fired (with the same propulsion force as the first), the craft is now traveling at a speed of 1,000+1,000 equaling a speed of 2,000 MPH.

If you continue firing these engines your speed increases with each engine burn. The ultimate speed you reach depends on how many propulsion bursts your engines can provide. One burst at a time you could reach the speed of light and beyond.

Or so it seemed~~~~~~~~

Now, some time later I discarded the above idea, a spacecraft could not contain enough fuel to propel us to distant stars.

Then an actual solution came to mind.

We use the force of gravity to pull us to wherever we want to go. Magnify the force of gravity using the gravity pull of galaxies channeling that pull in a narrow band multiply the pulling force of gravity exponentially to a limitless speed.getting us to where we want to go
-

You're talking about multi-stage rockets like the Saturn that lifted the Apollos. BTW, so far as we know, faster than light travel is impossible as is "channeling" gravity.

It won't work like that. Chemical rockets wont get you anywhere near light speed.

It doesnt matter how many stages. Your top speed is determined by how fast the exhaust leaves the rocket.

The time it takes for you to match exhaust speed is proportional to the speed you eject the propellant

All true. We as biologicals will never make it to the stars but 'we' as artificial beings will.

As RESURRECTED Beings, as SONS OF GOD, we will go far beyond the stars

Neither science nor technology.

 

[Wuwei]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space.

Seriously you need help. However if they are looking for investors, you are there man.

Now do you have a link to the mad magazine article where you read this?

PS The Earth turns doofy, not sure if you know how this even relates

Dusty, you are speaking from your gut and not from reading anything. Death Angle is right. Yes, solar sails are huge because the suns energy is diffuse. But the proposal does not use anything solar. The calculations show that concentrated energy from a laser on a small sail can impart a very large momentum to the gram sized probe.

And yes "probe" is a misnomer because it doesn't do anything useful - kind of like the helicopter on mars.

Concepts like the the probe are tested in small steps, and what is being proposed by UCSB is certainly a first small step.

.

 

[Dusty]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space.

Seriously you need help. However if they are looking for investors, you are there man.

Now do you have a link to the mad magazine article where you read this?

PS The Earth turns doofy, not sure if you know how this even relates

Dusty, you are speaking from your gut and not from reading anything. Death Angle is right. Yes, solar sails are huge because the suns energy is diffuse. But the proposal does not use anything solar. The calculations show that concentrated energy from a laser on a small sail can impart a very large momentum to the gram sized probe.

And yes "probe" is a misnomer because it doesn't do anything useful - kind of like the helicopter on mars.

Concepts like the the probe are tested in small steps, and what is being proposed by UCSB is certainly a first small step.

.

There is no such thing built or being built, nor it there any reason to send centimeter sized probes anywhere because there is no way to fix such a small device with a transmitter so that we can communicate with the probe therefor the concept is meaningless even if possible.

Seriously dude a probe needs a fuel source for the laser, a frame, the sails, and a transmitter so we can have a use for the probe. The only place that this is logical is in a mentally ill mind that believes everything that they read on the internet, so wake up

You also have no link to the mad magazine page where this is real

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

​

Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

www.pbs.org

Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space.

Seriously you need help. However if they are looking for investors, you are there man.

Now do you have a link to the mad magazine article where you read this?

PS The Earth turns doofy, not sure if you know how this even relates

Dusty, you are speaking from your gut and not from reading anything. Death Angle is right. Yes, solar sails are huge because the suns energy is diffuse. But the proposal does not use anything solar. The calculations show that concentrated energy from a laser on a small sail can impart a very large momentum to the gram sized probe.

And yes "probe" is a misnomer because it doesn't do anything useful - kind of like the helicopter on mars.

Concepts like the the probe are tested in small steps, and what is being proposed by UCSB is certainly a first small step.

.

There is no such thing built or being built, nor it there any reason to send centimeter sized probes anywhere because there is no way to fix such a small device with a transmitter so that we can communicate with the probe therefor the concept is meaningless even if possible.

Seriously dude a probe needs a fuel source for the laser, a frame, the sails, and a transmitter so we can have a use for the probe. The only place that this is logical is in a mentally ill mind that believes everything that they read on the internet, so wake up

You also have no link to the mad magazine page where this is real

This was proposed by Steven Hawking and is in the serious planning stage.

There are other variations on the concept they are also planning.

I was wrong about the laser ONBOARD. They ARE working on a gram weight, 32 watt laser. Seem it will be used as a transmitter. Nanotechnology may make this more doable than you want to believe

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space

Yes. You should do some reading. You're making yourself look like a fool.

Learn to use google

Breakthrough Initiatives

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[Wuwei]

There is no such thing built or being built, nor it there any reason to send centimeter sized probes anywhere because there is no way to fix such a small device with a transmitter so that we can communicate with the probe therefor the concept is meaningless even if possible.

Seriously dude a probe needs a fuel source for the laser, a frame, the sails, and a transmitter so we can have a use for the probe. The only place that this is logical is in a mentally ill mind that believes everything that they read on the internet, so wake up

You also have no link to the mad magazine page where this is real

Dusty, you still haven't read anything about the probe.

You have not read MAD magazine either. One over-arching purpose of MAD is sarcasm. MAD never portrays idiocy as real, they continually make fun of stupidity. You should try reading it too.

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[Dusty]

may take us 100 years to get to that point and we'll have made much progress in the fields of nano-tech and AI. Imagine a self-replicating AI the size of a molecule. It could be accelerated almost to light-speed and make the trip to the nearest stars in just years (stopping is another issue). Once there it would have the ability to populate it in a variety of ways. We would spread our humanity, just not our humans.

"At a recent talk at Harvard University, Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented a plan to launch small probes deep into space. Using an array of laser thrusters, a probe weighing one gram (just 0.035 ounces) would travel 4.4 light years the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, in just two decades. That’s only twice as long as it took the New Horizons spacecraft to fly by Pluto."​

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Laser Arrays Could Power a Space Probe to 25% the Speed of Light

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Talk means nothing. Bye the way there is no such thing as a one gram laser or one gram probe or any way to converse with a one gram probe if there were such a thing as a one gram probe. So in simpler terms wake up

This IS in the works.

It is a "solar Sail probe powered by LIGHT BEAMS (lasers) that will push these 1 centimeter square probes APPROACHING the speed of light. I have no idea if they'll be able to transmit data or images back to earth from these distances, but it is in the works.

Again there is no such one gram laser to push the probe.

Wake up

If it is in the works who is building it? Solar sails are huge, you are contradicting yourself with every word, and if it can not communicate back what the fuck use is it?

Who said there was? The lasers are earth based and VERY powerful. They weigh MANY grams.

It is Mans first real attempt to get any space probe anywhere near the speed of light. It is a worthy project.

Wake yourself up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa And in your delusional mind a laser on Earth can power a centimeter sized probe light years into space.

Seriously you need help. However if they are looking for investors, you are there man.

Now do you have a link to the mad magazine article where you read this?

PS The Earth turns doofy, not sure if you know how this even relates

Dusty, you are speaking from your gut and not from reading anything. Death Angle is right. Yes, solar sails are huge because the suns energy is diffuse. But the proposal does not use anything solar. The calculations show that concentrated energy from a laser on a small sail can impart a very large momentum to the gram sized probe.

And yes "probe" is a misnomer because it doesn't do anything useful - kind of like the helicopter on mars.

Concepts like the the probe are tested in small steps, and what is being proposed by UCSB is certainly a first small step.

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There is no such thing built or being built, nor it there any reason to send centimeter sized probes anywhere because there is no way to fix such a small device with a transmitter so that we can communicate with the probe therefor the concept is meaningless even if possible.

Seriously dude a probe needs a fuel source for the laser, a frame, the sails, and a transmitter so we can have a use for the probe. The only place that this is logical is in a mentally ill mind that believes everything that they read on the internet, so wake up

You also have no link to the mad magazine page where this is real

This was proposed by Steven Hawking and is in the serious planning stage.

There are other variations on the concept they are also planning.

I was wrong about the laser ONBOARD. They ARE working on a gram weight, 32 watt laser. Seem it will be used as a transmitter. Nanotechnology may make this more doable than you want to believe

Stephen Hawking said that nothing could ever escape from a black hole before he changed his mind and claimed that he was totally wrong. No one cared. Seriously kid anyone can say anything, that does not make it real. Now how do you build a laser to fit into a one centimeter probe